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A Ride of a Lifetime Through the Once-Dry Colorado Delta

A writer for Outside Magazine followed the progress of water through the once-dry Colorado River delta during the joint U.S.-Mexico experiment in ecological restoration.

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Credit: Gary Nored / Texas Parks and Wildlife

A writer for Outside Magazine followed the progress of water through the once-dry Colorado River delta during a joint U.S.-Mexico experiment in ecological restoration. Riding an inflatable paddleboard on newly released waters below Morelos Dam, on the Mexico-Arizona border, he experienced the result of an eight-week-long pulse flow of water through the dam and into the dry channel. (Outside Magazine)

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